The book's quoted testimony turns Kursk's scale into concrete engineering problems. Soviet positions combined swampy ground, mine belts, wire, ditches, trenches, bunkers, anti-tank guns, and mutually supporting strongpoints. German engineers had to probe forward by hand and lift mines that could be wired against removal while mortar fire fell around them. The sequence shows defence in depth as a system of terrain, obstacles, supporting fire, and human labour rather than a single trench line.
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Defence in depth and mine clearing at Kursk
Quoted passages show Soviet defences in depth and the exposed work required of German engineers clearing mines under fire.